The Laurel Community Center Games Club has sessions every Thursday starting at 6 PM, lasting until 9 PM. The Community Center is located at 7901 Cypress Street, Laurel MD 20707. Phone: (301)-497-0300. The Laurel Community Center Games Club is affiliated with the Games Club of Maryland ("GCOM"), which has over 30 locations in Maryland and the surrounding states and the District of Columbia.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Wow, a big jump in attendance to 14 (!) for this week's session. Attendees were Mike, John B, Patrick, Tim, Alex, Matt A (a first-time attendee), Ben A, Ben H, Eugene, Eric, Doug, Rembert, Neville and myself. This meant we have three tables of games going for just about the entire session. Games played: Sushi Go (x2), Cheeky Monkey, Splendor, Dream Factory, Dark Horse, Power Grid-China and Settlers of Catan.

Hard to keep track of this three-ring circus, but here goes for some details on the games played.

Coup was a 3-player, won by Neville, with Rembert second, I was last (knocked out first).

Rouslan joined us for Quantum, and he won -- first to five -- while the rest of us (Neville, Rembert and I) tied for second with 4.

Alex joined in for Cloud Nine. Neville was the big winner, benefiting from a couple of the "Wild" cards. Scores: Neville 56, Rembert 41, John 34, Rouslan 27, Alex 25.

Last game to finish was Power Grid: Korea, three players plus one of the tougher Robot configurations. Final scores: Tim 17 (winning on the money tiebreaker with 40), Mike 17 (with 26 money), Robot 16, Alec 15. The robot, which was instructed to build three cities, triggered the end of the game and managed to finish ahead of one of the human players ... first time I have seen that happen.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Good group of nine for this week's session. We had one first-time attendee (Clair) along with Mike, Ben H, Tim, Alex, Rembert., John B, second-time attendee Rich, and myself. We played four different games (two of them three times), for a total of eight games in all: Splendor (x3), Puerto Rico, Gipsy King and Money (x3). Results follow.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Eleven for this week's session, with regulars Mike, Patrick, Eric, Ben H, Jack, Alex, Matt and myself joined by three first-time attendees: Jeff and two more Mikes who shall be known as Michael and Mike Brown to distinguish them from Co-Host Mike Brazinski. Games played: Settlers of Catan, Power Grid: Northern Europe, Match of the Season, Homesteaders and two more games of Splendor.

Results of the games:

Settlers was a quick win for Ben H. Scores: Ben H 10, Matt 4, Patrick 3. Patrick had some bad die rolls, I was told.
Power Grid - Northern Europe (the one version where you switch out the regular plants with some others) was a win for Jack. Scores: Jack (13/62), Jeff 2d on the money tiebreaker (13/23) with Eric and Mike with just 10 plants powered but alot more money. Someone (Jack probably) must have built out to win.

I was pleased to get in a game of my soccer-themed game, Match of the Season, which puts the players in the role of coach and general manager of a soccer team. We got in two seasons, and Michael and I tied with 6 pts with Alex (who won the league in the 2nd season) next with 4 followed by Mike Brown at 2. Michael did well to get into the semis of the Euro Cup in the second season, so I declared him the winner although there was no tiebreaker specified in the rules.

Ben H continued his winning streak in the second round of games, winning Homesteaders which Patrick had brought. Final scores: Ben H 46, Patrick 36, Matt 34.

Seven of us split into two random groups to play Splendor (fortunately we had two copies on hand) -- note, in the past, all seven might have played 7 Wonders but Splendor seems to be the quick-play game of choice in recent weeks.